Two Nichiren Texts

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This volume contains two works by Nichiren (1222–1282), founder of the Nichiren Shū school: The Treatise on the Establishment of the Orthodox Teaching, and the Peace of the Nation (Risshōankokuron), and The Most Venerable One Revealed for the First Time at the Beginning of the Fifth of the Five Five hundred-year Ages (Kanjinhonzonshō).

Two valuable works by Nichiren

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Two Nichiren Texts

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Taishō 2688

Volume 83

The Treatise on the Establishment of the Orthodox Teaching and the Peace of the Nation

The Treatise on the Establishment of the Orthodox Teaching and the Peace of the Nationis a representative work of Nichiren, the founder of the Nichiren School, and was in fact an essay first submitted to the Kamakura Shogunate. Nichiren starts by discussing the reasons for the natural and man-made disasters which had been throwing the society of the time into confusion, and then goes on assert that calamities will disappear and peace come to the country if the whole of society takes faith in The Lotus Sūtra (Taishō 262). Nichiren was moved by a strong sense of danger, convinced that calamities were occurring because the correct teachings were absent from the land, and that Japan would be invaded by a foreign power and eventually go to ruin. He singles out in particular Pure Land Buddhism for strong criticism, and gives quotations from many scriptures in support of his views. As a result of this treatise Nichiren was eventually exiled to Izu.

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Volume 84

The Most Venerable One Revealed for the First Time at the Beginning of the Fifth of the Five Five hundred-year Ages

The Most Venerable One Revealed by Introspecting Our Minds for the First Time at the Beginning of the Fifth of the Five Five Hundred-year Agesis seen as the most important text in the Nichiren School. Nichiren believed that the fundamental cosmic truth to be realized within the mind had been expressed as Myōhō Rengekyō, the Japanese title of the The Lotus Sūtra (Taishō 262) and that everything was contained within these five Chinese characters. In the Nichiren school, practitioners chant Namo Myōhō Rengekyō, called the daimoku, or title (of the Lotus Sutra) to achieve awakening. In this work Nichiren expounds both the method of reciting the daimoku and the doctrine behind it. He asserts that by chanting the daimoku, followers can immerse themselves in the world of the Buddha while retaining their physical body.

Table of Contents

Contents 3Translator’s Introduction 5Risshōankokuron or The Treatise on the Establishment of the Orthodox Teaching and the Peace of the Nation 9

Dialogue I. The Cause of the Calamities 11Dialogue II. Predictions in the Sutras 13Dialogue III. Priests of Today 19Dialogue IV. The One-Sided Teaching 23Dialogue V. Ill Omens 31Dialogue VI. Appeals to the Emperor and Shogun 35Dialogue VII. The Warnings of the Buddha 37Dialogue VIII. How to Establish the Right Dharma 45Dialogue IX. How to Save Our Country 47Response of the Traveler 51

Kanjinhonzonshō 53

Translator’s Introduction 55Kanjinhonzonshō or The Most Venerable One Revealed by Introspecting Our Minds for the First Time at the Beginning of the Fifth of the Five Five Hundred-year Ages 61

Glossary 115Bibliography 123Index 125A List of the Volumes of the BDK English Tripi†aka (First Series)